Greetings Dollymixers, and how are you today? I'm still warming my icy fingers on cups of tea, but look - the sun is shining, the sky is blue and my puppy's taking time out of jumping up and nipping me to have a (hopefully very lengthy) sleep. Nice.
I'm enjoying searching out the best weird and wonderful news stories of the day for you, check them out after the jump:
- Girls Aloud confirmed as support act for Coldplay - just, um, WHAT?? More over at Star Trip.
- Nine year old boy publishes book called "How To Talk To Girls" - it makes a weird sort of sense that a pre-pubescent child can teach his peers, and, perhaps, sex-obsessed boys and men a thing or two on how to speak to women. Whether the latter will take advice from a mere child is another question.
- No cervical cancer vaccine if you're too old - or too young. If you're aged between 12 and 18 - and therefore probably not reading this - you're good to go, but the rest of us can't have it due to lack of NHS funds. This makes keeping up with cervical screening even more important - when was your last one, ladies?
- Lego-style Bin Laden on sale - just in time for Christmas, perfect! Other characters in the range, which isn't made by Lego, incidentally, but by a company called BrickArms, include "a Nazi major, bearing the chilling SS insignia, and a stormtrooper brandishing two grenade launchers". Bad taste Christmas presents annoying religious leaders, who would have thunk it?
- And hey, speaking of bad taste, fancy yet more confirmation that people are unspeakably weird and just plain wrong? Man has sex with a horse - twice. Sicko Leeroy Le Gallais molested poor gelding Calico once last year and once this year, and has finally been sentenced to three years in jail. Ick.
- You need something to reaffirm your faith in humanity after that one, don't you? Here you go - photos of Knut the polar bear, the guy I told you about yesterday. Watch him grow from a cute and cuddly little dude in to something that could have your arm off.
All together now - awwwwwwww.